Word: bath
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Athletic Club has formed most extensive plans for the future. These include the erection of a magnificent club house containing a large swimming bath, bowling alleys, parlors, reading room, library, hall, tennis courts and a gymnasium 100 by 60 feet, which shall be the most complete academy for physical culture in America. Members will receive instructions from competent professors in every branch of manly and athletic exercises. All this is to be capped by a running track and field on top of the roof of the building for the purpose of open air exercise. Also a new boat house...
...position in the democracy. Their places of instruction were built together and there the youth of Athens spent their days; one class taught how to search for the beautiful, the other taught beauty itself. The young men arrived in the morning early and soon were engaged in the forenoon bath, which is, perhaps, too much neglected by our trainers. This occupied over an hour, for they took hot and cold baths, then a swim, and finally the more fastidious youths appointed themselves for the day. After this the morning was spent in study, and the afternoon, until the evening bath...
...sleep. Thus it is often a good plan for men troubled with sleeplessness to exercise in the evening before retiring. Men should be warned against the use of drugs to cure sleeplessness. The sleep thereby induced is not a genuine sleep. After any violent or unusual exercise a warm bath is to be highly recommended before retiring. The practice of bathing the feet alone is a doubtful one, however. It is, in general, best not to be dependent upon any artificial condition to secure sleep. One should aim for a complete mastery over himself in such matters, so that...
...room for the upper class crews is now ready for occupation and is a great improvement over the old arrangement; the room is well heated by a stove placed in the center, the bath is in one corner while the lockers are arranged conveniently around the wall, making nearly as good quarters as the 'Varsity have...
...tepid bath is the best to take after exercise. While a warm bath would probably do one no harm, the absurdity of such a course was well shown. Exercise tends to circulate the blood rapidly and bring it to the surface; a warm bath simply causes such a state of things to continue. A cold bath immediately after exercise is very injurious. If a man were strong and vigorous it might not do him any harm, but for most men it is almost an attempt at suicide, as it drives the blood back upon the heart and lungs...